... and evanescent. This alternative Ovidian scenario offers a model of lyric that capitalizes on the brief resonance that the female voice acquires at the point of vanishing. By deploying it in her song, Wroth not only rewrites Petrarch through Ovid in order to articulate a gendered lyric voice but shows herself...

...Charlegso Ggio Rutledge Gordon Silber, Menasha, Wisconsin: George Banta Publishing Co., 1940. Pp. 162. Copyright © 1940 by Duke University Press 1940 Charles Goggio 573 The Influence of Dante and Petrarch on Certain of Boccaccio’s Lyrics...

... Mcfricac” of Pctrarch: .4 Manual. By ERNESTH. WILKINS. Roma: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, Sussidi Eruditi 8, 1956. Pp. 35. It does not seem incongruous that Petrarch’s lctters should receive some attention from the editorial point of view. This aspect (even if we preferred...

...Gordon Braden The value of the present book in such local texture is considerable, and very welcome. But Kennedy also tries for a larger thesis that he can’t bring off. Work and economies in the title point toward an argument about the place of Petrarchism in the developing marketplaces...

... of Petrarchism. Applied Petrarchism: The Loves of Pietro Bernbo Gordon Braden 0lder historicist studies of literature usually made their points by applying nonliterary information to literary texts, with results that now often seem reductive and constricting. It has been part...

...Frank J. Warnke Forster Leonard Cambridge: At the University Press, 1969. xvi + 204 pp. $7.50. Copyright © 1971 by Duke University Press 1971 REVIEWS The Icy Fire: Five Studies in European Petrarchism. By LEONARDFORSTER. Cambridge...

...) and that they vied for the humanists, as did Francesco da Carrara or the Visconti for Petrarch; or that they, in general, favored the arts. (That there was, certainly, a second thought behind all this should not be astonishing; the arts seem to have felt at ease and flourished in that strange symbiosis...

... explores the wider political stakes of imitation in Du Bellay’s works. The Olive showcases French poetic and cultural superiority through bloody images of mutilation and consumption of Italian sources, reshaping Petrarchism into an attack on Italy as beloved. The sonnets and manifesto jointly target...

... Ages.”1 In creating this Middle Time as a temporal wilderness ripe for mod- ernist colonization, Petrarch somehow manages to occupy at once all the possible spaces we might discover for colonial relations: he is at once colonizer and colonized, empire builder and rebellious native, crowned poet...

.... A superficial reading of this book might view Petrarch as Hui’s main subject: although Hui keeps returning to Petrarch, to view the subsequent chapters on Francesco Colonna, Joachim Du Bellay, and Edmund Spenser as add-ons would be to underestimate Petrarch’s immense contribution to Western ideas of ruin...

.... Pp. xxvii + 423. Lire 3700. Professor Wilkins is a Petrarch scholar of international reputation, and this volume, which presents his final views on important Petrarch problems, will almost automatically take its place on the reference shelf of every Italianist. Of the twenty...

... of imitation away from the formal exercise and toward the inner dimensions of a genre, toward how the poet develops his poem as an extension of his frame of mind, we discover that we must revise such settled notions as we have of the Elizabethan debt to Petrarch and his followers. The task of reassess...

.... By JOSEPH G. FUCILLA.Madrid: CSIS, 1960. Pp. xv + 340. In this work we are given for the first time a detailed picture of the impact of Petrarchism on the lyric poetry of Spain during the Golden Age, from the innovations of BoscAn and Garcilaso to the last flourishing of the baroque...

... Shaffer, Gzft of the Gorgon Uncrowning the Family Petrarch Robert Lowell’s last book of poems, Day by Day, parallels the anamor- phism of Sidney Nolan’s cover portrait for the 2 July 1967 Time maga- zine. Around Lowell’s disembodied head is a zigzagging laurel wreath that looks...

... major figures-Dante, Petrarch, Michelangelo, Tam, and Marinwand appends to each of these chapters an extensive selection of texts accompanied by stringent analyses. In other chapters he discusses the Sicilians and the Stilnovisti, deals with certain Zeitstile, such as the baroque, surveys...

...- ously successful. Gordon Braden undertakes this task for Petrarch, with a modesty—“I did not read Petrarch . . . until I in effect had to” (xi)—and a confidence that honor both his author and a line of scholars beginning with E. R. Curtius, perhaps his most...

.... Canonical authors, however defined, generate new readings, conservative or radically innovative, confirmatory or disruptive, variously timely and vari- ously successful. Gordon Braden undertakes this task for Petrarch, with a modesty—“I did not read Petrarch . . . until...

.... Canonical authors, however defined, generate new readings, conservative or radically innovative, confirmatory or disruptive, variously timely and vari- ously successful. Gordon Braden undertakes this task for Petrarch, with a modesty—“I did not read Petrarch . . . until...

...- ously successful. Gordon Braden undertakes this task for Petrarch, with a modesty—“I did not read Petrarch . . . until I in effect had to” (xi)—and a confidence that honor both his author and a line of scholars beginning with E. R. Curtius, perhaps his most...

.... Canonical authors, however defined, generate new readings, conservative or radically innovative, confirmatory or disruptive, variously timely and vari- ously successful. Gordon Braden undertakes this task for Petrarch, with a modesty—“I did not read Petrarch . . . until...